Araya Selassie Yohannes

Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes (Tigrinya: አርአያ ሥላሴ ዮሐንስ, araya śəllase yohannəs; "horse name" Abba Deblaq) (1869/70 – 10 June 1888) was a son of atse Yohannes IV from his wife Masitire Selassie, a daughter of a Muslim Afar chieftain whom he married after she was Christened. Araya was nominated Crown Prince. Araya died in his youth from smallpox, when the Emperor was returning from a campaign against the Italians at Seati (Battle of Dogali) His only son, by a weyzero Negesit, a lady from Wollo, was leul ras Gugsa Araya.

Araya Selassie Yohannes

Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes (Tigrinya: አርአያ ሥላሴ ዮሐንስ, araya śəllase yohannəs; "horse name" Abba Deblaq) (1869/70 – 10 June 1888) was a son of atse Yohannes IV from his wife Masitire Selassie, a daughter of a Muslim Afar chieftain whom he married after she was Christened. Araya was nominated Crown Prince. Araya died in his youth from smallpox, when the Emperor was returning from a campaign against the Italians at Seati (Battle of Dogali) His only son, by a weyzero Negesit, a lady from Wollo, was leul ras Gugsa Araya.